Crafting the authentic voice to artfully and truthfully tell our stories.

Tag: Difficult Story

  • Diving Into the Dark: Crafting Stories from Difficult Moments

    Diving Into the Dark: Crafting Stories from Difficult Moments

    Thursdays, January 5, 12, 19 and February 2 7:00 PM Central (Zoom), 75-minute sessions The troubling moments of our lives are sometimes the ones that most shape us, for good or for ill. Join Laura Packer to explore how to identify those moments, craft them into meaningful stories, and tell them effectively to your audiences. The…

  • The Flounder Watches Whales

    The Flounder Watches Whales

    by Loren Niemi – June 16, 2022 The Flounder/founder (Loren Niemi) of the American School of Storytelling just returned from the Storytellers of Canada National Conference where he taught a “Difficult Stories” Master Class with Elizabeth Ellis, a three-hour “Double Helix: Plot and Voice” workshop and was ¼ of the Saturday night concert. It was…

  • Rivers of Voices, Ocean of Stories: Coming Together Conference 2022

    Rivers of Voices, Ocean of Stories: Coming Together Conference 2022

    May 24 – 28th, at the Tigh-na-mara resort, Parksville, British Columbia on beautiful Vancouver Island Loren joins Elizabeth Ellis to teach a “Difficult Stories” Master Class and a workshop of the interconnected dynamic of “Plot/ Point of View” for the Storytellers of Canada’s National Conference on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, May 24-29th. Loren Niemi &…

  • Telling Difficult Stories

    Telling Difficult Stories

    We make the (best) decisions we can in any given moment as to what we will believe a situation or course of action is and what we will or will not do. That is the simple part. The complex part is how we feel about that situation or course of action and what it means…